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Verdict," and is a courtroom drama centering around the trial of four GIs accused of raping a young German girl. Both the defense attorney and the vicious townspeople relentlessly attack the girl's rep- utation, resulting in her suicide. Kirk Douglas, E. G. Marshall, Christine Kaufmann, Robert Blake, Richard Jaeckel. Producer-Director: Gottfried Reinhardt. Mi- risch Co.-Gloriafilm Munich Presentation. VALIANT, THE 6228 (89) July War Drama. British-made; filmed in Italy. Based on Robert Mallet's play, "L'Equipage au Complet," about a true incident that occurred in Alexandria in 1941. Concerns the dramatic conflict between the com- mander of an Eiglish warship and two captured Italian frogmen who refuse to reveal the location of a mine on the ship and the time set for the explosion. John Mills, Ettore Manni, Roberto Risso, Robert Shaw, Liam Redmond. Producer: Jon Pen- nington. Director: Roy Baker. B.H.P. Films, Ltd. Pro- duction. WAR HUNT 6217. .(81) Apr. War Drama. Set in the closing days of the Korean War, the story concerns a psychopathic young Gl with a lust for killing which impels him to continue even after cease-fire orders. He violates the truce and his own buddies are forced to hunt him down and kill him. John Saxon, Robert Redford, Charles Aidman, Sydney Pollack, Tommy Matsuda. Producer: Terry Sanders. Director: Denis Sanders. T-D Enterprises Production. LOWEST SIDE STORY . .6201 . (155) July Musical Drama. (Pre-released Dec. '61 for special roadshow engagements.) Based on the Broadway musical hit, and is a modern Romeo and Juliet love story between an Italian boy and a Puerto Rican girl, set on New York's West Side, where the Jets (whites) and the Sharks (Puerto Ricans) violently op- pose each other, culminating in a tragic "rumble" between the two opposing gangleaders. Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris. Producer: Robert Wise. Directors: Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins. Mirisch Co.-Seven Arts Co- production. (Panavision 70) ©X-15. .6137. (106) Nov. '61 Drama. Depicts the mental and physical problems faced in the rigors of X-15 research work carried out at a California Air Force base, not only by test pilots but their wives, as well, each wife finding she must learn to accept the dangerous work her husband has chosen as part of their life together. James Stewart narrates. David McLean, Charles Bron- son, James Gregory, Mary Tyler Moore, Brad Dexter. Producers: Henry Sanicola, Tony Lazzarino. Director: Richard D. Donner. E-C Production. (REISSUES) ©TRAPEZE . .5629. .(105) July Drama. Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Gina Lollobrigida. Producer: James Hill. Director: Carol Reed. Susan Production. (CinemaScope) ©VIKINGS, THE. .5828. .(114) July Adventure Drama. Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine, Janet Leigh. Producer: Jerry Bresler. Di- rector: Richard Fleischer. Kirk Douglas Production. (Technirama) Universal (November, 1961 through September, 1962) ©BACK STREET. 6201 . .(107) Nov. '61 Drama. The third remake of a classic American novel first filmed in 1932, about a dress designer who falls in love with a married man and is forced to live in the "back street" of his life because of his alcoholic wife's refusal to divorce him. Susan Hayward, John Gavin, Vera Miles, Charles Drake, Virginia Grey, Reginald Gardiner. Producer: Ross Hunter. Director: David Miller. Ross Hunter-Car- rollton Production. CAPE FEAR 6209 (106) May Suspense Drama. From John D. MacDonald's novel, "The Executioners," and deals with a psychotic ex- convict and his relentless campaign for revenge against the lawyer who had helped convict him on a rape charge. Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen, Lori Martin, Martin Balsam, Jack Kruschen, Telly Savalas. Producer: Sy Bartlett. Director: J. Lee Thompson. Melville-Talbot Production. DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE, THE 6210 (91) May Drama. British-made. Set against the authentic back- ground of a newspaper office, the London Daily Ex- press, the story deals with the effects of a mas- sive thermonuclear explosion which dislodges the earth from its axis and starts it spinning toward the sun, leaving the world faced with the prospect of being roasted alive. Janet Munro, Leo McKern, Edward Judd, Arthur Christiansen, Michael Goodliffe. Producer-Director: Val Guest, in association with Pax Films. (Dyaliscope) DESERT PATROL 6206 (78) Mar. War Drama. British-made. (Released in England in 1958 as "Sea of Sand." Cut from the original 98 minutes running time.) Tells the factual and dra- matic story of on incident in the North African campaign of World War II, in which a patrol of 15 men set out on a dangerous trek to raid one of Rommel's petrol dumps, just before the start of the battle of Alamein. Richard Attenborough, John Greg- son, Michael Craig, Vincent Ball, Dermot Walsh. Producers: Robert S. Baker, Monty Berman. Director: Guy Green Tempean Films Production, and Rank Organization Presentation. ^©FLOWER DRUM SONG. 6203 .. (131) Jan. Musical. Screen version of the Rodgers and Ham- merstein Broadway hit musical and the novel by C. Y. Lee. Set in San Francisco's Chinatown, story concerns a modern romance between two young Chinese and the conflict between old world and new world cultures and customs. Nancy Kwan, James Shigeta, Juanita Hall, Jack Soo, Benson Fong, Mi- yoshi Umeki. Producer: Ross Hunter. Director: Henry Koster. Ross Hunter Production, in association with Joseph Fields. (Panavision) INFORMATION RECEIVED. .6217. (77) July Melodrama. British-made. A detective, posing as a notorious American safe-cracker, works with Scotland Yard in apprehending the master-mind of a big safe-breaking syndicate and helps them smash the criminal gang. William Sylvester, Sabina Sesselman, Edward Underdown, Hermione Baddeley. Director: Robert Lynn. United Co-Productions, Ltd. Production. LONELY ARE THE BRAVE.. 6215 . .(107) June Western Drama. Based on Edward Abbey's novel, "The Brave Cowboy." A modern western story of a cowboy who escapes from jail and heads for the mountains with his faithful horse, pursued by the sheriff and his posse who are aided by walkie-talkie equipment and a helicopter until the tragic finale. Kirk Douglas, Gena Rowlands, Walter Matthau, Michael Kane. Producer: Edward Lewis. Director: David Miller. Joel Production. (Panavision) ©LOVER COME BACK. .6205. (107) Mar. Comedy. A running feud between a Madison Avenue agency executive and a female rival account ex- ecutive results in mistaken identities and a merry mixup on a non-existent account which eventually turns to love. Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Ran- dall, Edie Adams, Jack Oakie, Jack Kruschen. Pro- ducers: Stanley Shapiro, Martin Melcher. Director: Delbert Mann. 7 Pictures-Nob Hill-Arwin Production. NEARLY A NASTY ACCIDENT 6208 (86) Apr. Comedy Farce. British-made. Based on a British play, "Touch Wood," by David Stringer and David Carr, this deals with a timid, bungling RAF mechanic with an obsession for "fixing" things whose disastrous mistakes almost disrupt the Royal Air Force. Jimmy Edwards, Kenneth Connor, Shirley Eaton, Richard Wattis, Ronnie Stevens, Jon Pertwee, Eric Barker. Producer: Bertram Ostrer. Director: Don Chaffey. Bertram Ostrer Production. ©NIGHT CREATURES. .6213. (81) June Mystery Melodrama. British-made. An 18th century pirate yarn set in England and concerns the smug- gling activities on Romney Marsh by ghostly night riders, led by a former pirate chief who had sup- posedly been hanged. A captain, sent to investigate the "marsh phantoms" uncovers the mystery and smashes the smuggling ring. Peter Cushing, Yvonne Romain, Patrick Allen, Oliver Reed. Producer: John Temple-Smith. Director: Peter Graham Scott. Hammer- Major Production. OUTSIDER, THE 6207. .(108) Apr. Biographical Drama. Based on William Bradford Huie's book, "The Hero of Iwo Jima," and is the tragic story of Ira Hamilton Hayes, the Pima Indian who participated in the Iwo Jima flag-raising and became a national hero. Victimized by hero-worship, he turns to drink and dies a broken man. Tony Curtis, James Franciscus, Bruce Bennett, Gregory Walcott, Vivian Nathan. Producer: Sy Bartlett. Director: Del- bert Mann. ©PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, THE 6219. (84) Sept. Horror Melodrama. British-made. A remake for the third time is this classic macabre tale, based on the composition by Gaston Leroux, about a mysterious, hideous, masked phantom who plays the pipe organ in the city's sewers and terrorizes a plush London Opera House and its lead singer, whom he kidnaps. Herbert Lorn, Heather Sears, Thorley Walters, Michael Gough. Producer: Anthony Hinds. Director: Terence Fisher. Hammer Film Production. SERGEANT WAS A LADY, THE. .6202 (72) Nov. '61 Comedy. A handsome young missile technician is mistakenly assigned to a Pacific island missile base manned by 125 healthy young WACs. He gets into a series of merry mixups with the man-hungry fe- males, and falls for a pretty staff sergeant. Martin West, Venetia Stevenson, Bill Williams, Catherine Mc- Leod. Producer-Director: Bernard Glasser. Twincraft Production. ©SIX BLACK HORSES 6214 . (80) June Outdoor Drama. The last wish of a dying rustler is to have his funeral coach drawn by six black horses. His revengeful widow later meets and hires two men, one of whom she knows is the man who killed her husband, to take her through dangerous Indian country. Audie Murphy, Dan Duryea, Joan O'Brien, George Wallace, Roy Barcroft, Bob Steele. Producer: Gordon Kay. Director: Harry Keller. ©SPARTACUS. . 6204 . .(184) Feb. Spectacle Drama. (CinemaScope version for general release.) Story of a slave warrior who leads a gladiator rebellion against the imperial dictatorship of the Roman empire in the last century before the birth of Christ. Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Sim- mons, Tony Curtis, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov, John Gavin. Producer: Edward Lewis. Director: Stan- ley Kubrick. Bryna Production. (Released 1959-60 season as a roadshow special in Super Technirama 70, and 1960-61 season in CinemaScope version also for roadshow engagements.) ©SPIRAL ROAD, THE 6218 (140) Aug. Adventure Drama. Filmed in the Dutch East Indies. From Jan de Hartog's novel about a dedicated young doctor, sent to Batavia for training in tropical medicine, who devotes himself to fighting o jungle epidemic of leprosy, at the same time facing the hazards of jungle life and harassment by witchcraft horrors. Rock Hudson, Burl Ives, Gena Rowlands, Geoffrey Keen. Producer: Robert Arthur. Director: Robert Mulligan. ©THAT TOUCH OF MINK . 6216 .. (99) July Comedy. The sophisticated story of a naive girl from Ohio who comes to New York in search of employ- ment and meets a business tycoon with dishonorable intentions. Foiled at every turn, he finally realizes he loves her, quits plotting to break her resistance and marries her. Cary Grant, Doris Day, Gig Young, Audrey Meadows. Producers: Stanley Shapiro, Martin Melcher. Director: Delbert Mann. Granley-Arwin-Nob Hill Production. (Panavision) (REISSUES) ©FAR COUNTRY, THE. .6212. .(97) May Outdoor Drama. James Stewart, Ruth Roman, Corinne Calvet, Walter Brennan, John Mclntire. Producer: Aaron Rosenberg. Director: Anthony Mann. ©SASKATCHEWAN . .6211 . (87) May Outdoor Drama. Alan Ladd, Shelley Winters, J. Carrol Naish, Hugh O'Brian, Robert Douglas. Producer: Aaron Rosenberg. Director: Raoul Walsh. Warner Bros. (September 2, 1961 through August 18, 1962) ©ADVENTURES OF THE ROAD RUNNER, THE. .166. (26) June 2 Cartoon Featurette. (Bugs Bunny and His Buddy.) Re- leased in combination with "Lad: A Dog." CLAUDELLE INGUSH .. 155. .(99) Sept. 9, '61 Drama. Set in the Georgia Hill country, plot deals with a teenage farm girl who is caught on the re- bound from a disappointment in love, and begins to drift from one promiscuous romance to another, bring- ing tragedy both to herself and to those around her. Diane McBain, Arthur Kennedy, Will Hutchins, Constance Ford, Claude Akins. Producer: Leonard Freeman. Director: Gordon Douglas. COUCH, THE. .160 . (89) Mar. 17 Drama. A psychopathic killer 'phones the police in advance of each murder, picking his victims at ran- dom. After each killing he sees his psychiatrist, who is unaware that his patient is the elusive object of an intensive manhunt. Grant Williams, Shirley Knight, Onslow Stevens, William Leslie. Producer-Director: Owen Crump. GUNS OF DARKNESS 169 .(103) Aug. 18 Suspense Drama. British-made. Based on Francis Clifford's novel, "Act of Mercy," in which an English- man and his wife become involved in a revolu- tion in South America and in trying to help the de- posed president to flee the country. David Niven, Leslie Caron, David Opatoshu, James Robertson Justice. Producer: Thomas Clyde. Director: Anthony Asquith. HOUSE OF WOMEN . .163 . (85) May 5 Melodrama. A pregnant girl is sentenced on a rob- bery charge to a prison where women inmates are permitted to keep their babies until they are three. The warden falls in love with the girl, which trig- gers a riot when he turns down a parole appeal for fear of losing her. Shirley Knight, Andrew Duggan, Constance Ford, Barbara Nichols, Margaret Hayes, Jeanne Cooper. Producer: Bryan Foy. Director: Walter Doniger. ©LAD: A DOG. .158 (98) June 2 Drama. Film version of Albert Payson Terhune's novel about a prize-winning collie who saves the life of a crippled girl and helps her learn to walk again. Peter Breck, Peggy McCay, "Lad," Carroll O'Connor, An- gela Cartwright. Producer: Max J. Rosenberg. Di- rectors: Aram Avakian, Leslie H. Martinson. Vanguard Production. COMAJORITY OF ONE, A .153 (148) Feb. 17 Comedy Drama. From Leonard Spigelgass's Broad- way stage success about a loveable, middle-aged, American Jewish widow who meets a Japanese in- dustrialist and widower while en route to the Orient with her daughter and U.S. diplomat son-in-law. A hilarious romance develops as the two learn each other's ways. Rosalind Russell, Alec Guinness, Ray Danton, Madlyn Rhue, Mae Questel, Marc Marno. Producer-Director: Mervyn LeRoy, Mervyn LeRoy Pro- duction. MALAGA. .161 . (96) Mar. 24 Drama. Filmed in Spain. Set against a Mediterranean background, in which two jewel thieves and a des- perate young girl struggle over the loot in an esca- pade in Malaga. Trevor Howard, Dorothy Dandridge, Edmund Purdom, Michael Hordern. Producer: Thomas Clyde. Director: Laslo Benedek. Cavalcade Film Pro- duction. MASK, THE. .156. (83) Nov. 11, '61 Horror Drama. Canadian-made. An adventure in the supernatural, which centers around an ancient ritual mask unearthed by an archeologist that brings fan- tasies to its wearers, and the tragedy befalling several persons who come under its evil spell. Paul Stevens, Claudette Nevins, Bill Walker, Anne Collings, Martin Lavut. Producer-Director: Julian Roffman. Taylor- Roffman Production and a Beaver-Champion Pres- entation. (Depth-Dimensional (3-D) and Electro-Magic Sound) ©MERRILL'S MARAUDERS. .165 (98) July 7 War Dramo. Filmed in the Philippines. The true story of the World War II exploits of Brig. Gen. Frank D. Merrill and his Marauders, who fought behind Jap- 116 BAROMETER Section